 I can now excuse all his foibles; impute them to age, and to distress of circumstances: the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world,...  Black's Picturesque Guide to Warwickshire ... - Pàgina 41per Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1857 - 137 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 pàgines
...and to distress of circumstances : the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at...body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery," &c. — He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley in Arden.2 His distresses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pàgines
...and to distress of circumstances : the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at...wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to JAMES SOMEBVILLE. drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pàgines
...in the latter part of his life, according to the account of his friend Sbenstone, the poet, "drank himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind." Thus, most lamentably, was his misery completed, and his end accelerated ; and he died in 1742, in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pàgines
...in the latter part of his life, according to tlie account of his friend Shenstone, the poet, " drank himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind." Thus, most lamentably, was his misery completed, and his end accelerated; and he died in 1742, in the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pàgines
...in ihe latter part of his life, according to the account of his friend Sheiistoue, the poet, "drank himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind." Tim?, most lamentably, was his misery completed, and liis end accelerated j and be died in 1742, in... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1857 - 524 pàgines
...од the death fll Somerville, he writes, 4 To be forced to drink himself into pains of the bed», in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is l nuwT which I can well conceive, because 1 mav, wit ho* it TU ty, esteem myself his equal in point... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 560 pàgines
...Wheatley, on " Modern Gardening," p. 172. Edition 5th. t In "Hull's Collection," vol. ii. letter ii. " To be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery which I can well conceive, because I may, without vanity, esteem myself his equal in point... | |
 | Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 pàgines
...and to distressed circumstances. The last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on ; for a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at...body in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery." Somerville died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley-on-Arden. His estate... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 566 pàgines
...Wheatley, on " Modern Gardening," p. 172. Edition 5th. f In " Hull's Collection," vol. ii. letter ii. " To be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery which I can well conceive, because I may, without vanity, esteem myself his equal in point... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pàgines
...in the latter part of his life, according to the account of his friend Shenstone, the poet, " drank himself into" pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind." Thus, most lamentably, was his misery completed, and his end accelerated; and he died in 1742, in the... | |
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